neurosyphilis
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]neurosyphilis (uncountable)
- (pathology) A syphilis infection affecting the nervous system.
- 1988 December 4, John Dooley, “CDC Releases New Recommendations For Syphilis, HIV”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 21, page 2:
- The progression of syphilis to neurosyphilis usually takes 30 to 40 years, but in a "coinfected person" it can occur in six to nine months.
- 2007 March 18, Brenda Wineapple, “Wessex Man”, in New York Times[1]:
- Even more recently, The Times Literary Supplement, sifting through Hardy’s ashes, ran a story suggesting that his first wife may have suffered from quaternary neurosyphilis — contracted from him.
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[edit]syphilis infection affecting the nervous system
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